Depuis deux ans, avec les plans Barnier, Bayrou, Lecornu, les débats et le vote des Projets de Lois de Financement de la Sécurité Sociale (PLFSS) ont occupé, pendant des semaines, la Une de la vie politique. Ils ont mis en lumière le rôle décisif de cette création du Plan Juppé de 1995 pour imposer les violentes cures d'austérité voulues par les gouvernements et le patronat.
Le « pognon de dingue » que représente les plus de 600 milliards (25 % du PIB) de dépenses annuelles de Sécurité (…)

Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka on 27-29 November 2025, killing over 600 people and displacing more than 1.5 million in the country's worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami. The catastrophe exposed longstanding failures: warnings issued only in Sinhala, marginalised highland communities left unreachable for days, and a government constrained by IMF austerity from mounting an adequate response. As bodies continued to be recovered in remote tea plantation villages, debate intensified over (…)

The mass strike actions planned for Friday in Minneapolis could be a major step forward for resisting Trump's racist terror campaign. This potential show of class power could be an example for activists in other cities to follow. A Tempest National Committee statement.
Minneapolis has become the frontline in the emerging soft civil war between the U.S. government and large sections of its population. The city is now building toward a mass strike this Friday. While the exact scope of the (…)

ESSF has published substantial coverage of the Cyclone Senyar disaster, including Pierre Rousset's Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power, Mark Johnson's compilation of Indonesian ecosocialist movement analysis in Capital Disaster: How Indonesian Movements Are Framing Cyclone Senyar, and Amnesty International Indonesia's White flag flown in Aceh, national and international aid must be allowed in (Usman Hamid). This update presents ten recent articles that document how (…)

It is terrible that the global geopolitical left does not understand that what is important is to stand with those who live the drama of the working class, not to calculate how many governments identify as right-wing and how many as progressive; the politics of the common is not a game of monopoly. In fact, whilst whoever leads the bureaucratic and employer-aligned Central Bolivariana Socialista de los Trabajadores (CBST, Bolivarian Socialist Workers' Central) has never led a strike in (…)